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Brian's avatar

Is this supposed to be reporting? Reads like a weak opinion piece. And I know you’re not touting crime stats while you’ve also been skeptical in the past of police crime data, way to talk out of both sides of your mouth. Go tell north Seattle residents they’re overreacting and to look at the data lmao

DivestSPD's avatar

You must not follow us very well or at all because we use crime data constantly in this work. We've been skeptical of how police crime data is misused, not the fact that data exists and is useful. We can guarantee you that in the end-of-year crime report, Shon Barnes will be pointing to this reduction as proof positive that SPD's Aurora interventions worked, when the trends were already

While it's not overreacting for people to be alarmed about a series of shootouts that occurred over the course of a week, it is the definition of overreacting to treat this as an escalating crisis when the trends have been going in the opposite direction for two years.